Let's go back before there were operating rooms. Before germs and hygiene were a thing. Before anesthesia. And before there was evidence behind experiments and theories. No? Yeah, me either. But I'm at least gonna tell you about 'em!
"My Lobotomy: A Memoir" by Howard Dully and Charles Fleming
https://www.amazon.com/My-Lobotomy-Memoir-Howard-Dully/dp/0307381277/ref=sr
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Episode Sources:
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang, MD and Nate Pedersen
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/shakespeare-and-the-four-humors/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3LSaG
